Raul Garza Jr. STEAM Academy

Size

Of the 11 elementary schools in San Benito CISD, Raul Garza Jr. STEAM Academy is the 5th largest, with 4.8% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 397; Raul Garza Jr. STEAM Academy is close to their typical size.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is pre-K with 73 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 51, against an average of 62 per grade. This year grade 5 has 37% more students than kindergarten (70 against 51). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 73 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 97.3% here and 97.9% across San Benito CISD.

75.3% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 84.8% across San Benito CISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 27.14 full-time-equivalent teachers for 437 students, Raul Garza Jr. STEAM Academy has 16.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 437 students would have about 29.5 teachers, so Raul Garza Jr. STEAM Academy has 2.4 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

Raul Garza Jr. STEAM Academy is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town, which NCES calls rural, fringe. The nearest other elementary school is Cash Elementary School, 1 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 38 other elementary schools, 10 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.